by Bruce | November 19, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
We have a quick update on our earlier survey about the future of the Eurozone: In sum: 36% of you think we’ll muddle through, but followed very closely by 32% of you who think the entire benighted structured, flying in the face of 1,000 years of history,...
by Bruce | November 16, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Back to the Eurozone. (Yes, we have to, depressing as it is.) For starters (courtesy of the indomitable Martin Wolf in the FT) There’s nothing to like about any of these four charts. The only point I would add to what you can all too plainly see...
by Bruce | November 6, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership
We’re in a global economic mess of the first order, and nobody seems to know what to do about it. Reluctantly I have come to that conclusion after a spasm of reading about the Eurozone crisis, how the aftermath of financial recessions (as opposed to Econ 101...
by Bruce | October 29, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
This morning brought the release of Hildebrandt’s quarterly “Peer Monitor” index for 3Q2011, showing a drop of 6 points to 56 (anything below 65 is deemed a negative operating environment). In a nutshell, the problem was that demand...
by Bruce | October 17, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Adam Smith, Esq. and David Freeman Consulting Group are teaming up to conduct a unique survey of the legal profession’s business practices that you might find extremely valuable. If you’re reading Adam Smith, Esq., we don’t need to tell you that law...
by Bruce | October 11, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Law Schools, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
Here are two things we know: First, the rise of the Legal Process Outsourcers–and other nontraditional ways of accomplishing legal work–has not only arrived for keeps, but is accelerating. Consider that all of the conceivable possibilities for...